WASHINGTON- we announced legislators Friday to enact a law to "Do not Track" that would allow Internet users block companies gather information on their activities online.
Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, said that its "monitoring online 2011 act not" will offer a "simple, simple way for people to stop companies from all followed their move on the Internet."
"Consumers have the right to know when and how their personal and sensitive information are used online - and more important still to be able to say"Thank you"when firms seek to collect this information without their consent""Rockefeller said in a release."
In the House of representatives, Joe Barton, a Texas Republican and Edward Markey, a Democrat of Massachusetts, has published a draft of a bill "Do step Track" separate to protect children online.
US Senators John Kerry and John McCain presented a draft online privacy Bill last month requiring data collection companies to allow a consumer to "opt-out" of having their information collected.
The former Democratic presidential candidates and said Republicans that their Bill is intended to strike a balance between the protection of privacy on the Internet and the needs of e-commerce companies to conduct.
The avalanche of legislation comes in a series of incidents of theft of large-scale data, including the theft of personal information of Sony in addition to $ 100 million accounts and controversy on technology in the iPhone from Apple and smartphones running the software for tracking Google's Android.
Apple and Google are to attend a Congress hearing on the privacy of next week following claims the iPhone and Android devices regularly track the location of the user and stores the data.
"We look forward to engage with decision makers on how to protect mobile privacy of our users," Google said in an e-mail message to AFP.
Google explained that people must opt-in to sharing location on Android-powered smartphones to use and obtain control how the data are used.
"Location data that are returned to the Google location servers are anonymous and is not linked or traceable to a specific user, the titan Internet based in Mountain View, California has."
Apple vice president of software Guy Tribble has been registered as representing the based in Cupertino, California, iPad, iPhone and iPod maker at the hearing.
Apple on Wednesday released updated software for iPhone to fix "bugs" which gave rise to being non-localization data encrypted and stored for one year.
The amendments came in an update of the iOS 4.3.3 software.
Apple refused followed by iPhone users, maintain that hotspots Wi - Fi locations and the cell towers has been used for services such as navigation or targeted ads.
Rockefeller, President of the Senate Commerce Committee, said that his Bill would create a "legal duty" for all businesses online honoring the choice of consumers who say they do not want to be tracked online.
This would give the Federal Trade Commission the power to prosecute any company that honors not the application.
Barton and Markey, the co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional privacy caucus, said their "follow in the footsteps Act on children 2011"establishes new measures for the protection of personal information of children and adolescents."."
"For millions of children today, Internet is their playground again of the 21st century," Markey said in a statement. "But the children grow up in the online environment also require protection against the dangers which may lurk in cyberspace."
The Bill would require including online companies obtain parental consent before collecting personal information from children and prohibit them from using the personal information of children and adolescents for targeted marketing.
It would also create a "eraser" button for parents and children that would allow users to delete the content of personal information accessible to the public "when it is technically feasible."
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